Definition of Glomerate

1. a. Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.

2. v. t. & i. To gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads.

Definition of Glomerate

1. Verb. To gather or wind into a ball; to collect (threads, etc.) into a spherical form or mass. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Glomerate

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Glomerate

1. To gather or wind into a ball, growing, collected or arranged in a rounded mass, as glands, flowers, etc., clustered. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glomerate

gloire
gloires
glom
glom on
glom onto
glomal
glomalean
glomaleans
glomalin
glomangioma
glomangiosis
glome
glomectomy
glomera
glomera aortica
glomerate (current term)
glomeration
glomerations
glomeromycotan
glomerous
glomerulal
glomerular
glomerular capsule
glomerular crescent
glomerular filtration rate
glomerular layer of olfactory bulb
glomerular mesangium
glomerular nephritis
glomerular sclerosis

Literary usage of Glomerate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... all entire or the lower 1-3-toothed on each side ; plant flowering at the Seeds 1.3-1.6 mm. In diameter; flowers glomerate, usually summit 12. ..."

2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"mailer paniculate or glomerate heads, and comparai ¡voi v narrow lanceolate leaves: .... glomerate ..."

3. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"... crenate-dentate, clasping; flowers solitary or glomerate in the axils of the leaves. ... glomerate ..."

4. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1866)
"Herbaceous plants with variously divided leaves: heads of flowers irregularly glomerate, spicate: males above, females below. ..."

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